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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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when the opponent falls

[...] With the Arab Spring, meanwhile, unity was forged through opposition to shared tyrannical opponents, bringing together a disparate series of groups. However, these recent experiences demonstrate that a unity built solely upon opposition tends to break down when the opponent falls.

—p.158 Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work Building Power (155) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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more than just seizing the means of production archive/dissertation

[...] The direction of technological development is determined not only by technical and economic considerations, but also by political intentions. More than just seizing the means of production, this approach declares the need to invent new means of production. A final approach focuses on how exis…

—p.146 A New Common Sense (129) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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the benefits of utopian thinking

First, utopian thought rigorously analyses the current conjuncture and projects its tendencies out into the future. Whereas scientific approaches attempt to reduce discussions of the future to fit within a probabilistic framework, utopian thought recognises that the future is radically open. What m…

—p.139 A New Common Sense (129) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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forced back into capitalistic practices archive/dissertation

[...] once a postcapitalist infrastructure is in place, it would be just as difficult to shift away from it, regardless of any reactionary forces. Technology and technological infrastructures therefore pose both significant hurdles for overcoming the capitalist mode of production, as well as signif…

—p.136 A New Common Sense (129) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek